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AMERICAN TURF CONGRESS. 



BY-LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS, 

AND 

BETTING RULES 



OF THE 



American Running Turf 1 . 



IN FORCE FROM AND AFTER 

JANUARY 1, 1888 



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887 bv 
r u r J urf PubIi shing Co., in the office" 
of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 
All rights reserved. 



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RULE. 

Aids 53 

Allowance for heats 47a 

Allowances must be claimed 18 

Age of horse 2 

Arrears before weighing 38 

Assistant Starter 117 

Assumed name 27 

Attendants 52 

Betting grounds 120 

Betting rules 137-161 

Bolting 60 

Careless riding 55 

Cash payment required 19a 

Change of name 26 

Clerk liable igd 

Colors must be given 24 

Colors recorded 100 

Complaints 59 

Conditions supersede Rules 14 

Confirmation of entries 15 

Corrupt practices 106 

Craps and other games 122 

Crossing in a race 55 

Dead heat 69 

Dead heat for second place 79 

Death of a horse 34 

Death of Subscribers 33 

Deciding heat 68 

Declarations at noon 19c 

Declarations five per cent 19* 

Decorum 108 

Deductions for entrance paid 19^ 

Deputy Secretary 118 

Description of horse 33 

Determination subject to object'n 72 

Dilatory jockeys and trainers 50 

Disposal of fines 703 

Disqualifications for overweight.. 48 

Disqualifications of horses 55 

Distance 65 

Distance Judge 115 

Division of declaration fee 19A 

Duties of Judges 113 

Effects of objections 78-80 

End of meeting 83 

Entrance before starting 19a 



RULE. 

Entries and subscriptions 16 

Entries deputized 15 

Entries in produce races 12 

Entries not revocable 31 

Entries not void 35 

Entries to sweepstakes 22 

Examination of horses 81 

Exception of jumpers 57 

Exclusion from the course 49 

Excused after weighing out 51 

Explanation required 44 

Extent of disqualification 56 

Fair start 52 

Feather weights 47a 

Foreign horses 99 

Forfeit orders must be paid 39 

Forfeits before starting 19a 

Forfeits before ten o'clock 38 

Forfeits must be paid 16 

Fraudulent practices 106 

Fraudulent transfers 82a 

Free handicap 9 

Fund for trainers and jockeys 104 

Handicap 8 

Heat races 63 

Heavy welter weights 47a 

Horse (definition of ) 1 

Horse distanced 64 

Horse duly entered 16 

Horse must be named 20 

Horse must start 19c 

Horses suspended 19/" 

How heat races are won 67 

Hurdle rules 123-1^5 

Jockeys' disobedience 52 

Jockeys' dress 100 

Jockeys' engagements 101 

Jockeys' fees 102 

Jockeys' licenses 102^ 

Jockeys' suspension 102a 

Jockeys' weight 62 

Joint entries 28 

Joint subscriptions 28 

Jostle in a race 55 

Judge not in the stand 54 

Leading horse 55 



INDEX. 



RULE. 

Less distance 54 

Liability for declaration igf 

Liability lor declaration 37 

Light welter weights 47a 

Limitation of badges 121 

Maidens (definition of) 3 

Majority governs no 

Match (definition of) I 7 

Miscarriage of entry 22 

Mistake in entry.. 34 

Money before weighing 38 

Money not returnable 36 

Name in full 24 

No alterations 3; 

No change of name 21 

Nominating owners 29 

No purse walk-over 13$ 

Number exhibited 43 

Number of Jockey on arm 100 

Objections 73 

Objections after race 75 

Objections before race 74 

Omissions 95 

One declared, all declared \gd 

Overweight declared 48 

Ownership of horses 82 

Owners suspended \gf 

Owners to be paid 84 

Patrol Judges 114 

Payment for handicap 19a 

Penalties and allowances 92 

Penalties for foul riding 58 

Positions for a start 52 

Post book making 105 

Post-office address 24 

Postponement of races 112 

Post race 10 

Power of J'idges 113 

Power of officers 107 

Preamble and by laws page 4, 5 

Premium (definition of ) Rule 4 

Private sweepstakes 7 

Prize 5 

Produce race n 

Purse definition of) 5 

Race (definition of ) 4 

Races for 3-year olds & upward 47a 

Recovery of money 76 

Refusal to deliver or pay £8 

Regulations of the course 109 

Rejected entries 16 

Rider falling 61 



RULE. 

Sale with engagements 90 

Sanction of the Starter 52 

Scale of weight for age page 15 

Second or lower place Rule 70 

Secretary n8 

Selling races 85-86 

Selling races (relating to) 16 

Sex allowances 47 

Shoes and bar plates 48 

Simultaneous entries 25 

Stable employes 101 

Stake (definition of ^ 4 

Starters announced 41 

Starter's authority 52 

Starters weighed and numbered.. 51 

Steeplechase Rules 126-136 

Striking out of engagements 89 

Subscriptions not revocable 31 

Subscriptions transferable 30 

Substitutes hi 

Superintendent 119 

Sweepstakes (definition of) 6 

Swerving of a horse 55 

Telegraphic entries 16 

Thirty days limit 16 

Time between heats 66 

Time for first race 42 

Timers 116 

Trainers' licenses 102-b-c 

Transferee liable 37 

Transferee's death 34 

Transfer must be exhibited goa 

Transfer of badges 121 

Vicious or unruly horses 52 

Void start 5a 

Wager (definition of 4 

Walk-over 13 

Weighing in 62 

Weighing out 48 

Weighing room 48 

Weights for 2 y. exclusive 45 

Weights tor 3 y. o. exclusive 46 

What entries shall state 17 

When owners divide 71 

When purse entries close 19 

When race is not void 6 

When sweepstakes entries close... 22 

When to lodge forfeits 40 

Who decides objections 77 

Winnings 91 

Wrong weights 54 



NO TE. — Words importing the singular to include the plural, 
and the plural the singular, unless the contrary is expressed. 



PREAMBLE AND BY-LAWS 

OF THE 

AMERICAN TURF CONGRESS. 



■Name and Membership. 



This Association is formed by the Kentucky Association 
of Lexington, Ky. ; the Louisville Jockey Club, Louisville, 
Ky. ; the new Louisiana Jockey Club, of New Orleans, La. ; 
the Latonia Jockey Club, of Covington, Ky. ; the St. Louis 
Jockey Club, St. Louis, Mo.; and the Washington Park Club, 
Chicago, 111.; and shall be known as the American Turf 
Congress, and these rules shall be known as the American 
Racing Rules. 

New members may be admitted by a two-thirds vote of 
the Congress; but membership shall be confined to chartered 
clubs or associations of good standing, composed of citizens 
of the locality of the club or association. There shall be 
an initiation fee of $100, and each member shall pay $25 
annually as dues. The fund arising from in tiation lees and 
dues shall be devoted to the current expenses of the Con- 
gress. A member for sufficient cause may be expelled by a 
two-thirds vote of the Turf Congress 

B— Object. 

These rules have for their object the improvement of the 
breed and the development of horses, through the promotion 
of the interests of the American Running Turf; the preven- 
tion, detection, and punishment of fraud thereon ; and 
uniformity in the government of racing. 

No association, member of the American Turf Congress, 
shall give mixed meetings of running with trotting or pacing. 

C — By-Laws. 

Each association may be governed by its own by-laws, 
provided they do not conflict with the American Racing 
Rules. 



BYLAWS. 5 

D — Go Into Effect. 

These rules shall go into operation on the first day of 
January, 1888, and any other rules of racing shall be an- 
nulled, as from that day, without prejudice to the then 
existing rights or liabilities. 

E — Meetings. 

There shall be a meeting of the members of the different 
associations annually on the second Wednesday in Novem- 
ber, at noon, at such place as may be chosen at the meeting 
next preceding ; a written or printed notice of each meeting 
shall be mailed, postage paid, and addressed by the Secretary 
to each member at least thirty days prior to such meeting. 

A special meeting of the Congress may be had on the call 
of the President alone, or on the call of the President at the 
request of any three members. 

F — Delegation . 
A delegation to a general meeting of the Association shall 
consist of one person, a member of the Club, duly authorized 
in writing, by the President or Secretary of their respective 
organizations. No association shall vote by proxy. 

G — Officers. 

There shall be a President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer 
who shall hold their offices for one year. It shall be the 
duty of the Secretary, when present, to act as Secretary at the 
annual meeting of the Association. He shall keep a record 
of all proceedings of such meetings, and shall attend to all 
correspondence relating to the affairs of the Association. 
He shall publish, or cause to be printed, a report of the rules 
adopted, or changes of the annual meeting of the Association. 
He shall call the regular meeting of the Association for the 
second Wednesday in November of each year at such place 
as may be designated by the Association at their last meet- 
ing, and for such services and expenses incurred shall be 
paid $100 by the Association. 

The Treasurer shall give bond to the amount of $2,500, 
approved by the President for the safe keeping of the funds, 
for which he shall be paid $100 per annum. 



AMERICAN RACING RULES. 



DEFINITIONS. 

I — Horse. 
" Horse " includes mare or gelding. 
2 — Age. 

The "age " of a horse is reckoned as beginning on the 1st 
of January, in the year in which he is foaled. 

3 — Maidens. 

A "maiden" horse is one that has never won a race in 
any country. Conditions referring to maidens shall mean 
maidens at the time of the start, unless otherwise specified. 

4 — Race. 

Any contest for "purse," "stake," premium, or wager for 
money, or involving admission fees, on any course, and in 
the presence of a Judge or Judges, shall constitute a race. 

5 — Purse. 

A " purse " is a sum of money or other prize offered for a 
race. 

6 — Sweepstakes or Stake. 

A " sweepstakes " is a race, publicly declared open to all 
complying with its conditions for which the prize is the sum 
of the stakes which the subscribers agree to pay for each 
horse nominated ; and if an additional sum of money, cup, 
plate, or other reward is offered to 'the winner, the race is 



RULRS OF RACING. 7 

still a sweepstakes whatever may be the name given to such 
addition. Three subscribers, unless otherwise stipulated in 
its conditions, make a sweepstakes, and the race is not void, 
so long as there is a horse qualified to start. 

7 — Private Sweepstakes or Match. 

A "private sweepstakes," or " match," is one to which no 
money is added, and which is not publicly advertised previ- 
ous to the engagement being made. 

8 — Handicap. 
A "handicap " is a race for which the horses are weighted 
according to their merits in the estimation of the handi- 
capper for the purpose of equalizing their chances of win- 
ning. 

9 — Free Handicap. 
A "free handicap " is one in which no liability is incurred 
for entrance money, stake, or forfeit, until acceptance of the 
weight allotted, either by direct acceptance or through omis- 
sion to declare out. 

io — Post Race. 
A " post race" is one for which the subscribers declare at 
the usual time before a race for declaring to start, the horse 
or horses they intend to run, without other limitation of 
choice than the rules of racing and the conditions of the 
race prescribe. 

II — Produce Race 

A " produce race " is one for which horses are named by 
whose produce the race is to be run. 

\2—Ho'i< to Enter in Produce Races. 

The produce is entered by entering the dam and sire or 
sires. 

If a mare entered in a produce race drops her foal before 
the 1st of January, or if she has a dead or more than one 
foal, or is barren, the entry of such mare is void, and the 
entrance money (if any) is returned. 



RULES OF RACING. 



I? — Walk- Over. 



A "walk-over" is when two horses in entirely different 
interests do not run for a race or stake. 

(a) — Walk-over by any horse entitles him to only one-half 
of the added money in stakes. 

{b) - In purse races, two or more horses in entirely different 
interest must enter and start, or no race. 

14-CONDITIONS SUPERSEDE RULES. 

The express conditions of a race supersede the rules of 
racing when they conflict. 

15— ENTRIES AND SUBSCRIPTIONS. 

Entry shall be made by writing, signed by the owner of 
the horse, or by some person deputed by him, or may be 
made by telegraph, if received before the time for closing. 
Entries by telegram must, however, be confirmed in writing 
at the earliest possible opportunity, and in all cases before 
the time for declaring to start, or the horse shall not be 
allowed to start. 

In selling races not more than one horse in the same in- 
terest can start. If two or more should be entered, the first 
one recorded from the entry-box shall be deemed valid. 

No entry for stakes shall be received by any association 
from any person owing a forfeit. If any entry has been 
received within thirty days after publication of stakes in 
the sporting papers by any association, on proper notice and 
proof being made to said association by any person holding 
said forfeit, the secretary of said association shall notify the 
person making the entry, that nis or their forfeit must be 
paid within thirty days. If not paid in that time, the entry 
shall be rejected and published in the Turf Papers. 

1 6 — Horse Must be Duly Entered. 

A horse shall not be qualified to run for any purse or 
sweepstakes unless he has been and continues duly entered 
for the same. 



RULES OF RACING. 9 

I 7 — What an Entry Shall State. 
An entry shall state the name of the owner, and the name 
and description of the horse, and (if the race he for horses 
of different ages) his age. 

18 — Allowances Must be Claimed. 

Allowances must be claimed at the time of entry, except 
when otherwise specified. 

1 9— When Purse Entries Close. 

No condition or notice interposing, entries for purse races 
are to be made at the office of the Clerk of the Course, at the 
course, by 4 o'clock P. M. of the day previous to the race, 
or f there be races at the course on that day, within thirty 
minutes after the last race. 

No entry for a purse shall be received after the time for 
closing. 

(A) — Entrance Money Paid at Time of Entry, 

The entrance money to a purse (unless otherwise stipu- 
lated in its conditions) shall be three per cent, on the whole 
amount thereof, and must accompany the entry, except for 
free handicaps, when it must be paid at the time of ac- 
ceptance of the weight allotted. 

Entrance money, stakes, and forfeits must be paid in cash 
(if required) to the Clerk of the Course. 

Parties not having money to their credit with the Secre- 
tary, must pay all entrances or forfeits before starting. 

( H) — Clerk of Course Liable. 
If the Clerk of the Course allow a horse to start in a race 
without its entrance money or stake for that race having 
been paid, he shall be liable for it himself, but may have a 
forfeit order issued for the same. 

(C) — Horse Musi Start if not Declared. 
Every horse entered for a purse must start, unless he 
should be declared out to the Clerk of the Course by 12 
o'clock (noon) the day of the race. 



IO RULES OF RACING. 

19 — (d) —One Declared, All Declared. 

When a party having more than one horse entered in a 
purse, shall declare one out, he thereby declares all out. 

(e) — Five per cent. Declarations. 

Where no entrance fee is required, the declaration must 
be accompanied by five (5) per cent, of the whole amount 
of the purse. 

(F) — Owners and Horses can be Suspended. 

Horses not starting in purse races because of jnpaid for- 
feits shall be liable for the declaration fee, and owners and 
horses shall be suspended until they are paid. 

(g) — Deduction for Entrance Paid. 
If entrance fee has been paid, it shall be deducted from 
the declaration fee. 

(h) — Division of Declaration Fees. 

All declaration fees shall go : 60 per cent, to second horse, 
and 40 per cent, to third horse, or all to second horse if 
there be but two starters. 

20 — Horses Must be Named. 
Every horse entered for a stake or purse shall be named, 
and the name correctly and plainly written in the entry, or 
it shall be void; and after starting in a public race such 
name shall not be changed, and for any violation of this 
requirement, the owner and horse shall be ruled off. No 
horse shall be thus recorded by a name that has been re- 
corded for another horse in a public race. 

21 — No Change of Name. 
No association running under these rules shall receive the 
entry of or allow a horse whose name has been changed to 
run upon their course. Every association or club running 
under these rules shall be required to announce with their 
stakes and programmes that nominators shall name their 



RULES OF RACING. II 

horses entered in such stakes and purses. In stakes this rule 
to go into effect from and after January I, 1888. 

22— ENTRIES TO SWEEPSTAKES. 

If an hour for closing be not designated, entries for sweep- 
stakes may be mailed up to midnight of the day of closing, 
provided they are received in time for compliance with every 
other condition of the race. 

If miscarriage of an entry is alleged, satisfactory proof 
of its mailing must be presented within reasonable time after 
the day of closing, or the entry shall not be received. 

When an hour for closing is designated, entries for sweep- 
stakes can not be received afterward. 

In the absence of notice to the contrary, entries for sweep- 
stakes closing during and on the eve of a race meeting, 
close at the office of the Clerk of the Course, at the course. 

23 — Description of Horse. 
In entering a horse, he must be clearly identified by sta- 
ting his age, his name, his color (when possible), whether 
he is horse, mare, or gelding, and the names of his sire and 
dam, and if his sire or dam is unnamed, such further pedi- 
gree or description as will distinguish the horse intended to 
be entered from all other horses. If his dam was covered 
by more than one stallion, the names of all of them must be 
given. 

24 — Name, Address, and Colors. 

The party making an entry to stakes must give his name 
in full, postoffice address, and racing colors. 

25 — Simultaneous Entries with Proposed Names. 
If a horse be entered with a proposed name for the first 
time in several races closing at the same place on the same 
day, the description need not be added in more than the first 
of such entries. 

26 — Change of Name. 

If the name of a horse be changed before he has started 
in a public race, his new name, as well as his old name, must 



12 RULES OF RACING. 

be given until he has once run under it over the course of a 
recognized association. 

27 — Assumed Names, 

An owner may assume a name which must be registered 
with the Clerk of the Course, and he can not enter or sub- 
scribe in any other until he resumes his own name or regis- 
ters another assumed name. The real or assumed name of 
any person who runs, or, within twenty years has run horses 
in the United States, shall not be registered. 

28 — Joml Subscriptions and Entries. 

Joint subscriptions and entries may be made by two or 
more owners. 

The full names of all persons composing a company, and 
the real names of all persons confederating under an 
assumed name, must be registered with the Clerk of the 
Course. 

A confederate in an assumed name may subscribe or enter 
in his own or in another assumed name. 

If any of the parties to a joint subscription die, all rights 
and liabilities attach to the survivor or survivors. 

29 — Nominating Owners to Have Equal Interest. 

A horse can not be entered in the real or assumed name of 
any person, company, or confederacy as his owner, unless 
that person, company, or confederacy has an interest or 
property in the horses 

30 —Subscriptions are Transferable. 

A person who subscribes to a sweepstakes before the time 
fixed for naming can transfer the right of entry under any 
one or more of his subscriptions to any other person or per- 
sons. 

-}i — Subscription to Stakes not Revocable. 
A subscription to a stake can not be withdrawn, but an entry 
of a horse under a subscription may, before the time of clos- 
ing, be allowed by substituting another horse. 



RULES OF RACING. 1 3 

32 — No Alteration of Entry A ft or Closing. 
No alteration or condition shall be made in any entry after 
the time fixed for closing. 

^ — Death of a Subscriber. 

Subscriptions and all entries or rights of entry under 
them shall not become void on the death of the subscriber 
If either party to a match die, the match is off. 

34 — Death or Mistake in Entry. 

The death of a horse or a mistake in the entry of a horse, 
when eligible, does not release the subscriber or transferee 
from liability for a stake or forfeit. 

l^ — Entries not Void by Death. 

Entries in purses are not void by the death of the nomi- 
nator. 

36 — Entranee Money not Returnable. 

Entrance money for a purse is not returned on the death 
of a horse, or his failure to start for any cause whatever. 

37 —Liability for Stakes and Forfeits. 

A person entering a horse thereby becomes liable for the 
entrance money, stake, or forfeit. 

A subscriber to a sweepstakes is liable for the stake or 
forfeit, but if he transfer an entry or a right of entry 
therein to any other person, he is liable only in case of de- 
fault by the transferee, and in that case may recover from 
the transferee, and may, if he pay such stakes or forfeits, 
place them on the forfeit list as due to himself. 

38 — Money <.nd Arrears Must be Paid Before Starting. 
A horse shall not start for a race unless there have been 
duly paid, before weighing, any stake or entrance money 
payable in respect of that race, and also all arrears due 
from any person for such horse, or due from the person 
starting said horse on other horses : but if there be any 
forfeits against said horse or persons, the same must have 
been presented to the Clerk of the Course before ten o'clock 
of the dav of the race. 



14 RULES OF RACING. 

39 — Forfeit Orders Must be Paid. 

Each association shall issue forfeit orders, and no horse 
shall be allowed to start in a race against whom a forfeit 
order is lodged until it is paid. 

40— When to Lodge Forfeit Orders. 
Forfeit orders must be lodged with the Clerk of the 
Course or Secretary by 10 o'clock A. M., the morning of the 
race. 

41 — Horses Must be Announced as Starters. 

A horse shall not be qualified to run in a race unless he 
has been announced as a starter to the Clerk of the Scales, 
not less than 45 minutes before the time appointed for the 
race, which shall, at the close of the previous race of the 
day, be indicated on a dial conspicuously placed. 

42 — When the First Race Begins. 

If the time for the first race is not fixed by the pro- 
gramme, it shall be indicated on the dial, half an hour in 
advance. 

43 — Number Must be Exhibited. 

The number of a horse must be exhibited as soon as 
practicable after he has been announced as a starter. 

44 — Explanation Required if He does not Run. 

If a horse whose number has been exhibited does not 
start and run the course, the Judges may call upon the 
owner, trainer, or jockey for an explanation ; and if no satis- 
factory explanation be given, shall fine, suspend, or rule off 
the course, as the case may warrant. 



WEIGHTS TO BE CARRIED. 

The following weights shall be carried when not other- 
wise specified in the conditions of a race : 



RULES OF RACING. 



15 



Scale of Weight for Age. 



DISTANCE 



Half Mile. 



Three-quar- 
ters Mile- 



One Mile- 



One Mile and 
a Half-- 



Two Miles — 



Two Miles and 
a Half.... 



Three Miles- 



four Miles. 



AGE 


Jan 

70 


Feb 

73 


Mar 
76 


Apr 

78 


May 
80 


June 

82 


July 

85 


Aug 

89 


f 2 years 


|3 " 


100 


102 


103 


105 


106 


107 


109 


111 


14 " 


112 


113 


115 


117 


118 


118 


118 


118 


[5&aged 


116 


117 


119 


120 


121 


120 


118 


118 


f 2 years 


70 


73 


75 


76 


76 


77 


85 


94 


3 " 


100 


103 


105 


106 


106 


107 


109 


111 


4 " 


115 


115 


116 


117 


118 


118 


118 


118 


[5&aged 


118 


118 


119 


120 


120 


120 


120 


118 


f 2 years 


70 


7:; 


74 


75 


75 


75 


80 


87 


|3 " 


100 


100 


102 


102 


102 


103 


105 


107 


4 " 


115 


115 


116 


117 


118 


118 


118 


118 


[5&aged 


120 


120 


120 


121 


122 


122 


120 


120 


f 2 years 


















|3 " 


100 


100 


100 


100 


100 


101 


103 


ior, 


I 4 " 


116 


in; 


116 


117 


118 


118 


118 


118 


5 " 


120 


120 


121 


122 


123 


122 


121 


120 


tG&aged 


121 


121 


122 


123 


124 


123 


122 


121 


f 2 years 


















|3 " 


95 


9.-) 


96 


97 


98 


99 


101 


103 


4 " 


115 


115 


116 


117 


118 


118 


118 


118 


5 " 
[6&aged 


121 


121 


122 


1 2:5 


124 


123 


122 


121 


122 


122 


123 


124 


125 


124 


123 


122 


' 2 years 


















3 " 


94 


94 


95 


96 


97 


98 


100 


102 


4 " 


115 


115 


116 


117 


118 


118 


118 


118 


5 " 


122 


122 


123 


124 


125 


124 


123 


122 


^6&aged 


123 


123 


124 


125 


126 


125 


121 


123 


' 3 years 


90 


93 


94 


95 


96 


97 


99 


101 


4 " 


114 


115 


116 


117 


118 


118 


118 


118 


5 " 


121 


122 


123 


124 


126 


12.") 


124 


123 


.6&aged 


123 


124 


125 


1 26 


127 


126 


b25 


124 


r 3 years 


90 


92 


93 


91 


95 


96 


98 


100 


4 " 


111 


115 


116 


117 


118 


118 


lis 


lis 


5 " 


122 


L23 


121 


125 


127 


126 


125 


121 


^G&aged 


123 


121 


125 


127 


128 


127 


126 


125 



92 
112 

118 
118 

97 
112 

118 
118 

92 
108 
118 
118 

75 
106 
118 
120 
120 



104 
118 
120 

121 



103 
118 

121 
122 

102 
US 
122 
123 

101 
lis 
123 
124 



Nov 
Oct and 
|J)ec 

95 95 

113 113 

lis 118 

118 118 



100 
113 

118 
118 

9 

109 
118 
118 

78 
107 
118 
120 
120 

105 
118 
120 
120 



104 
118 
120 
121 

103 
118 
121 
122 

102 
118 
122 
123 



100 
113 
118 
118 

100 
109 
118 
118 

78 
107 
118 
120 
120 

75 
105 
118 
120 
120 



104 
118 
120 
121 

103 

11* 
121 
122 

102 
US 
122 
123 



In races of intermediate lengths, the weights for the shorter distance are 
to be carried. 



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43 — Weights Exclusively for Two- Year-Olds. 

In all races exclusively for two-year-olds, the following 
scale of weights shall be adopted: From January 1st to May 
i st the weight shall be no lbs From May 1st to December 
31st the weight shall be 115 lbs. 

No money shall be added to any race exclusively for two- 
year-olds carrying 115 lbs., longer than a mile. 

46 — Weights Exclusively for 7 hree- Year- Olds. 

In all races exclusively for three-year-olds, the following 
scale of weights shall be adopted : From January 1st to May 
1st the weight shall be 112 lbs. From May 1st to December 
31st, shall be 118 lbs. 

47 — Sex Allowances. 

Except in handicaps, and in races where the weights are 
fixed absolutely in the conditions, fillies two years old, and 
geldings of all ages, shall be allowed 3 lbs., and mares three 
years old and upward shall be allowed 5 lbs. before the 
first of September, and 3 lbs. afterward. 

47<z — Miscellaneous. 

There shall be no race given for horses three years old 
and upwards, less than tix furlongs. 

In all heat races there shall be an allowance of 5 lbs. from 
the scale of weights 

Light welter weights, 28 lbs. added to weight for age. 

Heavy welter weights, 40 lbs. added to weight for age. 

Feather weights, 75 lbs. 

Welter weights shall be 28 lbs., added to weight for age, 
and in the absence of conditions, shall be the weights for 
steeplechases and hurdle races. 

48 -WEIGHING OUT AND OVERWEIGHT. 

Every jockey who is to ride in the race shall weigh at the 
usual place, unless especially excused by the Judges, or his 
horse shall be disqualified. 

If a jockey intends to carry overweight, exceeding by 
more than two pounds the weight at which his horse is to 



RULES OF RACING. \J 

run, he must declare the amount of such overweight to the 
Clerk of the Scales not later than 45 minutes before the 
time appointed for the race; and the Clerk shall announce 
or exhibit, in some public manner, the amount of such over- 
weight, with the name or number of the horse. 

A horse shall not be qualified to run in a race with more 
than 5 lbs. overweight. 

If a horse carry more than 2 pounds, which has not 
been duly declared, or more than 5 pounds overweight, he is 
disqualified. 

A horse shall not be qualified to start in a race in ordinary 
or training shoes ; if any person starts a horse in shoes, he 
and the horse may be ruled off. Bar plates may be used by 
consent of the Judges. 

No person shall be admitted to the weighing room except 
the owners, trainers, and jockeys. 

49 —Persons Allowed on Course During Race. 

After the horses are ordered to the starting post, and until 
the Judges direct the gates to be re-opened, all persons ex- 
cept the racing officials shall be excluded from the course to 
be run over. 

50 — Dilatory Trainer or Jockey to be Fined. 

Every trainer or jockey who does not bring his horse 
promptly to the post at the time appointed for the race shall 
be fined. 

51 — A Starter , 

Every horse whose jockey has weighed out, and whose 
number has been put up, is a starter, and shall be liable for 
his whole stake. If a horse is excused after he is weighed 
out, all bets on the race are void, and additional time, before 
the race shall be granted by the Judges. 

52 — The Positions for a Sta rt. 

The position of horses in starting shall be determined by 
lot by the Judges. 



l8 RULES OF RACING. 

The winner of a heat shall at the next start have the 
inside position, and the others shall take their positions on 
his right, in the order in which they came out in the previous 
heat. 

Nevertheless, the starter may place vicious or unruly 
horses where they can not injure others. 

A horse in the hands of the starter shall receive no further 
care from his attendants. 

RUNNING. 

The horse must be started by the jockey. With the sanc- 
tion of the starter, he may be led to his position. The jockey 
must not dismount except to set right insecure equipments. 

If an accident happens to a rider or his equipments, ex- 
cept while repeating heats, the starter may grant a delay not 
exceeding fifteen minutes, which in extreme cases may be 
extended by the Judges. 

During such delay the other jockeys may dismount and 
their horses be given up to their attendants. 

The horses shall be started by a drum or flag. When the 
starter has started the horses by tap of drum or by the drop- 
ping the flag, there shall be no recall. 

The starter may give all such orders and take all such 
measures as are necessary to secure a fair start, and in par- 
ticular may order the horses to draw up in a line, as far 
behind the starting post as he thinks necessary. 

The starter shall have authority to fine or suspend a 
jockey for disobedience of his order, or for attempting to 
take any unfair advantage, but the suspension of a jockey 
shall not sake effect until after the last race of the day of his 
suspension, and shall not extend beyond the meeting with- 
out the approval of the officers of the association. 

If the starter allows a start to take place in front of the 
starting post, the start is void, and the horses must be started 
again. 

53 — Of Aids. 

No person other than the rider shall be permitted to strike 
a horse, or attempt by shouting or otherwise, to assist a horse 
in getting a start, or increase his speed in running any race. 



RULES OF RACING. I9 

Nor shall any person stand in the track to point out a 
path for the rider, under a penalty of exclusion from the 
course for either offense; and if such person shall be the 
owner, trainer, or attendant of such horse, or instigated to 
the act by either of the said persons, such horse shall be 
disqualified. 

54 — When a Race is to be Run Over. 

If a race has been run by all the horses at wrong weights, 
or at a less distance, or when a Judge is not in the stand, it 
shall be run again at such time as the officers appoint, but at 
an interval of not less than twenty minutes, if the distance 
to be run is two miles or less, or more than thirty minutes if 
over two miles. 

55 — Crossing or Jostling in the Race. 

A leading horse is entitled to any part of the course, but 
if he swerve to either side so as to compel another to shorten 
his stride and to impede him, it is a cross. 

A horse which crosses or jostles another so as to impede 
him is disqualified, wheiher the cross or jostle happened 
through the willful or careless riding of the jockey or the 
swerving of the horse, unless the Judges think that the cross 
or jostle was wholly caused by the fault of some other horse 
or jockey, or that the other horse or his jockey was partly in 
fault. 

A horse may be disqualified if his jockey strikes another 
horse or jockey, and shall be disqualified if he rides either 
willfully or carelessly, so as to injure another horse, which is 
in no way in fault. 

56 — Extent of Disqualificatii >n . 

When a horse is disqualified under these rules, every 
horse in the race belonigng wholly or in part to the same 
owner is also disqualified. 

57 — Exception as to Steeplechases and Hurdle Races. 

In steeplechases and hurdle races, a horse is not disquali- 
fied under these rules, unless in the opinion of the Judges he 
is intentionally ridden so as to jeopardize the chance of suc- 
cess of another horse. 



20 RULES OF RACING. 

58 — Penalty for Foul Riding. 

If the Judges are satisfied that the riding of any race was 
intentionally foul, or that the jockey was instructed or in- 
duced so to ride, all persons guilty of complicity in the 
offense shall be ruled off the course. 

Any one ruled off for a clear case of fraud shall be ruled 
off for life. 

59 — Complaints. 
The Judges must take notice of acts of foul riding or other 
questionable transactions on the turf. Complaints under ihis 
rule can be received from the owner, trainer, or jockey of the 
horse alleged to be affected, and must be made to the Judges 
either before or immediately after the jockeys in the race 
have passed the scales. Complaints can be made by any 
person ; but on the failure of the complainant to substantiate 
the charge, the Judges may rule him off. 

60 — Horse Bolting. 

If a horse leaves the course, he must turn back and run 
the course from the point at which he left it. 

61 — Rider Falling. 

If a rider fall, and another person of sufficient weight ride 
the horse in from the spot where the rider fell, the horse 
shall not be disqualified for overweight. 

62— WEIGHING IN. 

Every jockey must, immediately after pulling up, ride his 
horse to the place of weighing, and there dismount, after 
obtaining permission of the Judge, and be weighed by the 
Clerk of the Scales ; provided that if a jockey be prevented 
from riding to the place of weighing by reason of accident 
or illness, by which he or his horse is disabled, he may walk 
or be carried to the scales. 

If a jockey does not weigh in, or is short of weight, or is 
guilty of any fraudulent practice with respect to weight or 
weighing, or dismounts before obtaining permission, or 



RULES OF RACING. 21 

touches (except accidentally) any person or thing other than 
his own equipments before weighing in, his horse may be 
disqualified, and he may be fined or suspended unless he can 
satisfy the Judges that he was justified by extraordinary cir- 
cumstances. 

No one shall assist the jockey in taking his equipments oft 
his horse except by permission of the Judges 

It is optional for a jockey to weigh out or in with his 
bridle, and the Clerk of the Scales shall allow one pound for 
a curb or double bridle ; but no weight shall be allowed for 
a snaffle bridle unless it is put into the scales before the horse 
is led away, and no whip or substitute for a whip shall be 
allowed in the scales. Jockey whips shall not exceed one 
pound in weight. 

If a horse run in a hood, blinkers, or clothing, it must be 
included in the jockey's weight. 

Horses not bringing in their weight out, or within two 
pounds of it. shall be disqualified ; but the Judges shall make 
allowances for overplus occasioned by rain or mud. 

Jockeys may be fined by the Clerk of the Scales for gross 
misbehavior at the scales. 

63 -HEAT RACES. 

No person shall start more than one horse, of which he is 
wholly or in part the owner, in a race of heats. 

64 — When a Horse is Distanced. 

All horses whose heads have not reached the distance 
post as soon as the leading horse arrives at the winning 
post are distanced, but as proof of the fact the distance 
Judge must have dropped his flag in answer to the Judge's 
flag. 

65 — A Distance. 

In heats of three-quarters of a mile, twenty-five yards 
shall be a distance. 

In heats of one mile, thirty yards shall be a distance. 
In heats of two miles, fifty yards shall be a distance. 
In heats of three miles, sixty yards shall be a distance. 
In heats of four miles, seventy yards shall be a distance. 



22 RULES OF RACING. 

06 — Time Betiveeti Heats. 
The time between heats shall be — 
In heats of three-quarters of a mile, twenty minutes. 
In heats of one mile, twenty minutes. 
In heats of two miles, twenty-five minutes. 
In heats of three miles, thirty-five minutes. 
In heats of four miles, forty minutes. 

67 — How Heat Races Are Won. 

In a race of heats, best two in three, a horse that actually 
wins two heats, or distances the field, wins the race. A horse 
running in two consecutive heats, without winning or run- 
ning a dead heat, can not again start in the race. A dead 
heat is a heat against every horse in the race except those 
making it, and in their favor to the extent only of allowing 
them to start in the next two heats, unless the race is de- 
cided, or they are distanced the next two ensuing heats. 
When a race is won by two heats, the preference of the 
horses is determined by the place they gtt in the second. 
If more than two heats are run, the horses starting for the 
deciding heats shall alone be placed. 

In a race of heats, best three in five, a horse that actually 
wins three heats or distances the field, wins the race. A 
horse running in any three consecutive heats, without win- 
ning or running a dead heat, can not again start in the race. 
A dead heat is a heat against every horse in the race except 
those making it, and in their favor to the extent only of al- 
lowing them to start in three heats, unless the race is de- 
cided or they are distanced the next three ensuing heats. 
When a race is won by three heats, the preference of the 
horses is determined by the place they get in the third heat. 
If more than three heats are run, the horses starting for the 
deciding heat shall alone be placed. 

Horses started and drawn before a race of heats is won, 
are held to be distanced. 

Horses shall be placed in the race in the position in which 
they passed the Judges in the deciding heat. A horse not 
placed in a deciding heat can have no place in the race ; 
n or can such horse have any portion of the purse or prize ; 



RULES OF RACING. 23 

provided there is no third money, in which case the third 
horse in the race of heats shall not be deprived of third 
money if ruled out for not winning a heat in two, three, or 
more heats, as the case may be. 

68 — The Deciding Heai. 

The deciding heat of a race is one in which two or more 
heats have been run, and that determines the result, by the 
starters for that particular heat, in which there shall be no 
distance. 

(a) If any person draw or sell his horse (if by the sale the 
horse be drawn) during the pendency of a race of heats, 
without permission of the Judges, he shall be ruled off the 
course. 

69— DEAD HEATS. 

In races not of heats, a dead heat for the first place shall 
be run off after the last flat race of the day, unless the 
Judges otherwise appoint, but at an interval of not less than 
twenty minutes. 

The other horses shall be deemed to have been beaten, but 
they shall be entitled to their places (if any) as if the race 
had been finally determined the first time. 

70 — For Second or Lower Place. 

If a dead heat be run by two or more horses for second or 
any lower place in a race, the owners shall divide, subject to 
the rules applicable to objections, when the winner is ob- 
jected to; and if they can not agree as to which of them is 
to have a cup or other prize, which can not be divided, they 
shall draw lots for it. 

71 — How and When Owners Divide 

When owners divide, they shall divide equally all the 
moneys and other prizes which any of them could take, if 
the dead heats were run off; but owners can not divide in a 
race of heats, or in a ra :e where any of the horses are to be 
sold, or in any race where divisions would conflict with any 
of its conditions. 



24 KULES OF RACING. 

Horses running a dead heat for a race or place shall be 
deemed winners of the race or place until the dead heat is 
run off, or the owners agree to divide; and if the owners 
agree to divide, each horse which divides shall be deemed a 
winner of the race or place for which he divides. 

72 — -Judges' Determination Subject to Objection. 

The determination of the Judges declaring a horse to have 
won, or to be entitled to a place, shall be final, unless some 
objection is made and allowed on the ground of disqualifica- 
tion, provided that this rule shall not prevent the Judges 
from correcting any mistake. 

73— OBJECTIONS. 

Every objection must be made by the owner, trainer, or 
jockey of some other horse engaged in the same race, or by 
the officials of the course, or some creditable person, and on 
race days must be made to one of the Judges of the race, or 
to the Clerk of the Course, and at other times, to one of the 
officers, or to the Clerk of the Course. 

The person to whom an objection is made may require it 
to be put in writing and signed. 

7 '4 — Objection Before Race. 

If an objection to a horse engaged in a race be made not 
later than eleven o'clock on the morning of *.he day of the 
race, the Officers may require his qualification to be proved 
before the race, and in default of such proof being given to 
their satisfaction, they may declare him disqualified. 

75 — When Objections After Race are to be Made. 

An objection to a horse on the ground of his not having 
run the proper course, or of any other matters occurring in 
the race (except those coming under a previous rule), must 
be made before the numbers of the horses placed in the race 
are put up. 

An objection on the ground of fraudulent or willful mis- 



RULES OF RACING. 25 

statement or omission in the entry under which a horse has 
run, or on the ground that the horse which ran was not the 
horse which he was represented to be in the entry or at the 
time of the race, or was not of the age which he was repre- 
sented to be, may be received at any time within twelve 
months after the race. 

76 — Recovery of Money Paid Over Before Objection. 

If by reason of an objection to a horse made after the con- 
clusion of the meeting, a race or place is awarded to another, 
his owner can recover the money, or such race or place from 
those who wrongfully rece ved it, and in case of default shall 
be entitled to a forfeit order. 

77 — Who Shall Decide Objections. 

Every objection shall be determined by the Judges of the 
race. 

The functions of the Judges of a race cease when they de- 
termine the places of the horses in the race, subject to objec- 
tions they have not decided, and thereafter the determination 
of all matters affecting the race devolves on the Officers of 
the Association. 

78 — Effects of Objection, if Valid. 

If an objection to a horse which has won or been placed 
in a race be declared valid, the horse shall be regarded as 
distanced in races of heats, and as last in other races, and the 
other horses shall take their places accordingly. 

, 79 — In Case of Dead Heat for Second Place. 

When a dead heat is run for second place and an objection 
is made to the winner of the race, if such objection be de- 
clared valid in time for the dead heat to be run off on the 
day of the race, the Judges may direct it to be run off ac- 
cordingly. Otherwise the horses which ran a dead heat shall 
divide or draw lots for an indivisable prize, and each horse 
which divides shall be liable to the penalties attaching to a 
winner of that race. 

Every objection which can not be decided by the Judges 



26 RULES OF RACING. 

or officers during the meeting, must be made in writing and 
lodged with the Clerk of the Course. 

An objection made in writing can not be withdrawn with- 
out leave of the Officers of the Association. 

All costs and expenses in relation to determining an ob- 
jection shall be paid by the person decided against. 

If the Officers of the Association decide an objection to 
be frivolous, they may fine the person making it, or rule him 
off. 

80 — Effeci of Pending Objection. 

Pending the determination of an objection, any money or 
prize which the horse objected to may have won or may win 
in the race shall be withheld until the objection is deter- 
mined, and any forfeit payable by the owner of any other 
horse shall be paid to the Clerk of the Course, and held for 
the person who may be determined to be entitled to it. 

When any race is in dispute, both the horse which came 
in first and any horse claiming the race, shall be liable to all 
the penalties attaching to the winner of that race until the 
matter is decided. 

81 — Judges May Order Examination and Call for Proof s of Age 

of Horses. 

The Judges shall have power at any time, and either upon 
or without objection made, to order an investigation by such 
person or persons as they think fit, of any horse entered for 
a race, or which has run f >r a race, and shall withhold any 
money the horse or his owner may have won until such in- 
vestigation is made. 

If the horse be declared to be of the wrong age, the ex- 
pense of such examination shall be paid by the owner. 
Otherwise it shall be paid by the person (if any) at whose 
request the examination is ordered, or by the Association, as 
the Judges direct. 

82— Ownership of Horse. 
The Officers of the Association shall also have power to 
call on any person in whose name a horse is entered to pro- 
duce proof that the horse entered is not the property either 



KULES OF RACING. 27 

wholly or in part of any person who owes forfeit or otherwise 
disqualified, or to produce proof of the extent of his interest 
or property in the horse, and in default of such proof being 
given to their satisfaction they may declare the horse dis- 
qualified. 

$2a — Fraudulent Transfer. 

If any transfer is made for the purpose of avoiding pay- 
ment of forfeits or any disqualification, the persons mak- 
ing and receiving such transfers may be ruled off. 

83—WHEN MEETING ENDS. 

In any other case an objection shall be made before the 
conclusion of the meeting, which is deemed to conclude one 
hour after the last race on the last day. 

84— WHEN OWNERS ARE TO HE PAID. 

Payment of the moneys due to owners of horses which 
have run during the meeting may be made on the- day after 
the meeting. 

85— SELLING RACES. 

Any horse running for any race " to be sold," shall, if the 
winner, be liable to be claimed for the selling price, and if 
it is a condition of the race that the winner is to be sold by 
auction, the sale shall take place immediately after the race, 
and one-half of any surplus over the selling price shall go 
to the second horse, and the remainder to the Association. 
If sold, the horse shall not leave the place of sale until 
authorized by the Clerk of the Course to do so; and if the 
horse be not paid for, or the Clerk of the Course be not satis- 
fied with the security, he may order the horse to be put up a 
second time, and the purchaser at the first sale shall be re- 
sponsible for any deficiency arising from the second sale. 

The price of every horse sold must be paid to the Clerk of 
the Course, and an order be given by him for the delivery of 
the horse. 



28 RULES OF RACING. 

86 — Special Rule for Selling Races, When Horses are Objected to. 

Subject to the rules relating to objections, the following 
special provisions shall apply to selling races : 

(a) If the objection has not been made until after the 
horse has been bought, the person who bought him, shall, 
if the objection is declared valid, have the option of return- 
ing him or retaining him at the selling price, and any money 
returnable by reason of the exercise of such option, whether 
price or surplus, shall be repaid by those to whom it has 
been paid over, and in case of default the person to whom it 
is due shall have a forfeit order for the same. * 

(b) If the objection has been made before the horse has 
been bought, the time for delivering but not for selling him, 
is thereby postponed until such time after the determination 
of the objection as the Judges appoint, and if the objection 
be declared valid, the person who bought him in shall have 
the same option as in the last mentioned case. 

(c) If the objection be declared valid before the close of 
the races of the same day, the horse to whom the race is 
given shall then be sold by auction, if it be a condition of 
the race that the winner is to be thus sold, and any surplus 
resulting from his sale and from the previous sale of the 
horse objected to, shall be treated as surplus from the sale of 
the winner, and be divided accordingly, but liability to be 
sold shall in all cases end with the day of the race. 

88 — Refusal to Deliver or Pay in a Selling Race. 

Any person who refuses to deliver, as required by these 
rules, a horse entered to be sold or one bought in a selling 
race, shall be ruled off the course, and the horse shall be dis- 
qualified for all races. 

Any person who fails to pay for a horse bought in a sell- 
ing race may be ruled off the course. 

89 — Striking Out of Engagement. 

No horse shall be considered as struck out of his engage- 
ments unless the declaration be made by the owner, or by 
some person deputed by him, to the Clerk of the Course, 



RULES OF RACING. 29 

who shall record the day .and hour of its receipt, and give 
early publicity thereto. 

The striking of a horse out of an engagement is irrevoc- 
able. 

90 — Sale With Engagement, and Liability for Engagements of 

Horses Sold. 

When a horse is sold with his engagements, or any part of 
them, the seller can not strike the horse out of any such 
engagements, and he remains liable for the amounts of the 
forfeits in each of the engagements ; but he shall, if com- 
pelled to pay them by the purchaser's default, be entitled 
to a forfeit order, as due by the purchaser to himself 

In all cases of sale by private treaty, the written acknowl- 
edgment of both parties that the horse was sold with the 
engagement is necessary to entitle the seller or buyer to the 
benefit of this rule, and if certain engagements be specified, 
it is to be understood that those only are sold with the horse; 
but when the horse is sold by public auction, the advertised 
conditions of the sale are sufficient evidence; and if certain 
engagements only be specified, it is to be understood that 
these only are sold with the horse; and if he has been 
bought in a race of which it was a condition that the horse 
was to be sold with his engagements, this is also sufficient. 

When a horse is sold without an engagement, the seller 
may grant or refuse ihe right to start for it, but in selling 
races the horse's engagements are included. 

When a person is entitled by purchase or otherwise to 
start for any engagement a horse which was entered by an- 
other person, and he is prevented by these rules form start- 
ing the horse without paying forfeits or defaults on that 
horse to which he would not otherwise be liable, he may, if 
he pay such forfeits or defaults, start the horse, and shall be 
entitled to a forfeit order with the name of the horse in 
respect of which they are due as due to himself. 

90tf — Transfer Must be Exhibited. 
In case of any transfer of a horse with his engagements, 
such horse will not be eligible to start in any stake, unless 
at the usual timeof the running of the stake, or prior thereto, 



30 RULES OF RACING. 

the transfer of the horse and his engagements shall be 
exhibited to the Secretary or President of the Association. 



9I _WINNINGS. 

Winnings shall include all prizes up to the time appointed 
for the start, and shall apply to all races in any country, and 
winning shall include walking over or receiving forfeit. 

Winnings during the year shall be reckoned from the first 
of January preceding. 

Winner of a certain sum shall mean winner of a single 
race of that value, unless otherwise expressed in the con- 
ditions. 

Although a horse may be qualified for a race at the time 
of entry, he may lose his qualifications by winning subse- 
quently. 

In estimating the value of a race, there shall be deducted 
the amount of the winner's own stake and any money pay- 
able to the horses, or out of the stakes by the conditions 
of the race, or by the general conditions of the meeting; 
entrance money to a purse or entrance money going to a race 
fund shall not be deducted. 

The value of any prize not of money or not paid in money 
shall not be estimated. 

In estimating the winnings of a horse, second and third 
money shall not be counted against him. 



92— PENALTIES AND ALLOWANCES. 

(a) — As to Stake Penalties. 

In all stake races exclusively for two and three-year-olds 
no penalty should exceed five pounds. 

( b) — Not Cum ulative. 

Penalties and allowances are not cumulative, unless so 
declared by the conditions of the race. 



RULES OF RACING. 31 

(C) — Beaten and Maiden Allowances. 

No horse shall receive allowance of weight, or be relieved 
from extra weight, for having been beaten in one or more 
races; provided that this rule shall not prohibit maiden 
allowances. 

(d) — Exceptions of Matches or Private Sweepstakes. 

Allowances and extra weights shall not be allowed or in- 
curred in respect of matches or private sweepstakes. 

(e) — As to Selling Races. 

Where winners of selling races are exempted from penal- 
ties, only such horses as have run to be sold shall be entitled 
to the allowance. 

93 — Allowances in Produce Races. 

Allowances to the produce of untried horses extends only 
to the produce of horses whose produce in any country have 
not ceased to be maidens up to the day previous to that 
fixed for claiming allowances, and any such allowance shall 
be claimed before the expiration of the time for naming, 
and shall not be lost by winning after that time. 

94 — As to Steeplechases and Hurdle Races. 

Winners or losers of steeplechases or hurdle races are not 
considered winners or losers in flat racing. 



OMISSIONS. 



95 — Sunday Omitted in Computing Time. 

When the last day for doing anything in relation to a race 
falls on a Sunday, it may be done on the following Monday, 
unless the race to which such act relates is appointed for that 
day, in which case it must be done on the previous Saturday. 



32 RULES OF RACING. 

96 — Omission of Weight. 
When a match or sweepstakes is made, and no weight 
mentioned, the horse shall carry the weights specified in 
the scale of weights. 

97 — Omissions of Distance. 

When a match or sweepstakes is made and no distance 
mentioned, the distance shall be as follows : 

If two years old, six furlongs. 

If three years old, one mile and a half. 

If four years old, two miles. 

If five years old or upward, three miles. 

And if the horses be of different ages, the distance shall 
be fixed by the age of the youngest. 

98 — Omissions of Day. 
If the meeting be specified and no day mentioned for a 
race, it shall be on any day in that meeting the Association 
appoint; if neither day nor meeting be mentioned, then it 
shall be run during the meeting in progress, or during the 
next meeting, should the race be made between meetings — 
in both cases on the day the Association may appoint. 

99— FOREIGN HORSES. 

A horse foaled out of the United States shall not be 
qualified to start for any race until his owner has produced 
a certificate stating the age, pedigree, and color of the horse, 
and any mark by which he or she may be distinguished, 
signed by the secretary or other officer of some approved 
racing club, or by some approved magistrate or public officer 
of the country in which the horse was foaled, or has pro- 
duced other evidence of identity and age satisfactory to the 
Association. 

100— DRESS OF JOCKEYS. 

Number and Record of Colors . 

All riders must be dressed in jockey costume — cap and 
jacket of silk or satin, white or light colored breeches and 
top boots. 



RULES OF RACING. 33 

Each jockey shall wear a number on his arm corresponding 
with the number on the programme of the day. 

The colors selected by owners may be recorded with the 
Clerk of the Course, and when thus recorded shall not be 
used by others except in case of death or withdrawal from 
the turf for five years. 

A list of colors that have been recorded shall be posted 
in the office of the Clerk of the Course. 



101 -ENGAGEMENT OF JOCKEYS AND STABLE 
EMPLOYES. 

Owners and trainers employing riders, grooms, or attend- 
ants shall make their contracts in writing, properly signed 
and witnessed whenever the time covered by the contract 
exceeds thirty days. Any person attempting to entice a 
rider, groom, or attendant away from his employer, who is 
under contract, may be ruled off. 

In the absence of special agreement, a jockey groom, or 
attendant who accepts a retainer can not terminate it other- 
wise than by three months' notice in writing, ending at the 
close of the year. If a jockey, groom, or attendant be 
prevented from ridingor service by suspension for fraudulent 
practices or other misconduct, any person who has retained 
or employed him may cancel the contract or retainer. In 
like cases, if any owner or trainer be prevented from run- 
ning or training by suspension or fraudulent practices or 
other misconduct, the rider, groom, or attendant may 
cancel the contract or retainer. When any owner or trainer 
shall discharge a rider, groom, or attendant, he shall give 
him a written discharge, setting forth the causes and reasons 
for the discharge. Refusing to do so he shall be fined or 
suspended. Any owner or trainer who shall employ a rider 
for the purpose of preventing him from riding for other 
parties in the same race may be suspended or ruled off. 

Any rider or employe prevented from obtaining em- 
ployment by this rule shall have the right of appeal to the 
Association, who may authorize the engagement. 



34 RULES OF RACING. 

If a jockey rides, or agrees to ride, a race without the con- 
sent of his employer, the Association may fine or suspend 
him, and may also fine or suspend the owner or trainer for 
whom he rode or agreed to ride. 

If a jockey engaged for a certain race, or for a specified 
time, refuses to fulfill an engagement, the Association shall 
fine or suspend him. 

102— JOCKEY FEES. 

In the absence of a special agreement, the fee to a winning 
jockey in stake races shall be twenty-five dollars, and to a 
losing jockey ten dollars ; to a winning jockey in purse races 
fifteen dollars, and to a losing jockey five dollars. In case 
an owner or trainer shall engage two or more jockeys for the 
same race, he shall pay the losing fee for each jockey en- 
gaged who does not ride for some one else in the same race. 

| (a) — Suspension of Jockeys. 

If a jocky should refuse to ride for or accept the fees as 
above provided, he shall, on complaint, be suspended for 
such a period of time as may be decided by the Judges. 

LICENSES FOR JOCKEYS AND TRAINERS. 

(6) Trainers and jockeys, before acting as such, shall each 
procure a license from the Secretary of the American Turf 
Congress, by application to him ; or on recommendation of 
any association running under these rules. Such license shall 
be for not more than one year, and shall expire on the first 
of January next after its issuance. The fee for each license 
shall be five dollars. 

(c) In case a party is trainer and jockey also, one license 
only will be necessary. 

{a) This rule shall be applicable to trainers and jockeys in 
actual service. 

(e) The said license may be revoked for good cause by any 
association, and any association permitting a trainer or jockey 
to act as such on its grounds without having a license, shall 
pay a fine of fifty dollars. 



RULES OF RACING. 35 

103 — Fines and their Disposal. 

All fines must be paid within twenty-four hours. Delin- 
quents shall be suspended from all privileges of the course 
until their fines are paid. 

The proceeds of all fines and licenses shall be paid to the 
Secretary of the American Turf Congress, and be applied 
under the direction of the American Turf Congress as they 
may direct. 

104 — The Fund for Trainers and Jockeys. 
The fund arising from license fees shall be in the keeping 
of the Treasurer, and shall be sacredly kept and used for the 
benefit of sick, superannuated, and injured trainers and 
jockeys in good standing, and who are not able to support 
themselves. 

To entitle a trainer or jockey to the benefit from this fund, 
the sickness or injury must exist or occur at the course of a 
member of this Congress. 

All payments from the fund shall be made upon the 
order of the Congress, unless in case of urgency or immediate 
need, when payments may be made on an order of the 
Association where the case arises. 

At the close of each session of the Congress the custodian 
of the fund shall invest the amount remaining in his hands, 
less bills ordered paid, on safe personal collateral of real 
estate security, at interest, the investment and security to be 
applied by the Congress, or by the President in writing. 

Io5 — POST BOOK-MAKING. 

In case any association permits post book-making, no 
book-maker shall be permitted to make books upon any race 
in which he has a horse running, in whom he has any interest 
directly or indirectly. Upon proof of the fact, the offending 
party may be suspended or ruled off. 

106-CORRUPT AND FRAUDULENT PRACTICES. 
If any person corruptly give or offer any money, share in 
a bet, or other benefit to any person having official duties in 
relation to a race, or to any jockey ; or, 



36 RULES OF RACING. 

If any person having official duties in relation to a race 
or any jockey, corruptly accept or offer to accept any money, 
share in a bet, or other benefit ; or, 

If any person willfully enter or cause to be entered, or to 
start for any race a horse which he knows to be disqualified ; 
or, 

If any person be proved to the satisfaction of the Officers 
to have watched, or to have employed any person to watch 
a trial on a private course, or to have obtained surreptitiously 
information respecting a trial on a private or public course, 
from any person engaged in it or in the service of the owner 
and trainer of the horses tried, or respecting any horse in 
training from any person in such service ; or, 

If any person be guilty of any other corrupt or fraudulent 
practices on the turf in this or any other country. 

Every person so offending shall be ruled of the course. 

Every person ruled off the course of a recognized associa- 
tion shall be ruled off the course wherever these rules have 
force. 

When a person is ruled off the course, or suspended, and 
so long as his exclusion continues, he shall not be allowed on 
the grounds of the course, and he shall not be qualified, 
whether acting as agent or otherwise, to subscribe, for or to 
enter or run any horse for any race in either his own name 
or that of any other person, and any horse of which he is 
wholly or partly the owner, or which after one month from 
his exclusion shall be proved to the satisfaction of the as- 
sociation to be under hi? care, management, training, or 
superintendence, shall be disqualified. 

If a person be so excluded ior any fraudulent practice in 
relation to a particular horse, wholly or partly belonging to 
him, such horse shall be perpetually disqualified for all 
races, and such person shall return all money or prizes 
which such horse h^s fraudulently won in any race at any 
meeting. 

Touts, when known, shall be debarred the privileges of 
jhe race-courses and grounds. 

107 — General Powers of Officers. 

When there is no specified penalty for violation of the 



RULES OF RACING. 37 

rules of racing, or ol the regulations of the course, the Officers 
shall have power to fine, suspend, expel from, or rule off the 
course. 

If any case occur which is not, or which is alleged not to 
be provided for by these rules, it shall be determined by the 
Officers in such manner as they think just and conformable 
to the usage of the turf. 

1 08 — Decorum . 
If any owner, trainer, jockey, or attendant, or any person 
use improper language to the racing officials, he may be 
ruled off the course. 

REGULATIONS OF THE COURSE. 

109 — Powers of Officer of the Association. 

During their term of office, the Officers of the Association 
shall have the entire management of the course and of the 
racing, and the appointment of the officials of the course, 
whose acts they shall have power to regulate and revise. 

They shall have power to fine, suspend, rule off, or expel, 
at their discretion, any person for misbehavior, or for viola- 
tion of the rules of racing, or of any regulation they may 
establish not inconsistent therewith. 

They shall exclude from the stands and grounds improper 
characters, and persons who have been ruled off the course 
for corrupt practices on the turf in any country, so long as 
the sentence against such persons remains in force. 

They thall have a discretionary power to warn any person 
off any premises in the occupation of the Jockey Club, and 
in case of such notice being disregarded, to enforce them by 
proper orders. 

Any person exhibiting a deadly weapon upon the grounds 
of any association may be suspended or expelled. 

I IO — Majority to Govern. 
When the Officers differ, the decision of a majority shall 
prevail. 

1 11 — Substttui 
Should there be necessity on a race day for prompt judi- 



38 RULES OF RACING. 

cial action on the part of the Officers of an Association, or 
executive committee, and less than three of them are on the 
course, the member or members present shall increase 
their numbers to three by selections from the governors, 
stewards, or officials of the Jockey Club, and the substi- 
tutes thus appointed shall, for the occasion, possess full 
authority. 

112 — Postponement of Races. 

The officers or executive committee shall have power to 
postpone races. When races are postponed, handicaps 
stand — purse races are off, and may be re-opened and close 
at the hour prescribed by the rules. 

In case of postponement, associations may double up their 
races in order to finish their meeting on the last day, so as 
not to interfere with the meeting of any other association 
that may follow. No race or heat shall be run when it is so 
dark that the horses can not be plainly seen by the Judges 
from the stand, but all such races shall be continued by the 
Judges to the next day (omitting Sunday) at such hour as 
thev shall designate. 

1 13 — Duties and Powers of Judges. 

There shall be three Judges— a presiding Judge and two 
assistants — who shall decide which horse wins, and assign 
their respective places in the race to as many horses as they 
think proper, except when in running the best of heats it is 
necessary to place all the horses. 

No one interested in the result of a race, either because 
of ownership of any horse, bets, or otherwise, shall act as 
judge, starter, or official therein, and the presiding Judge, 
previous to the race, shall inquire of the Judges selected 
whether they are so interested. For any violation of this 
rule, the parties may be suspended or ruled off. 

When the Judges differ, the majority shall govern. 

If one of the Judges be in their stand when the horses 
pass the winning post, the heat or race shall not be void. 

The Judges shall have control of the horses in the race, 
their jockeys and attendants. Any person refusing to obey 
their orders may be fined, or suspended, or ruled off the 



RULES OF RACING. 



39 



course. They shall determine all questions relative to the 
race, which can be decided within a reasonable time after 
the finish, and shall then assign their places to the horses 
subject to objections they have not decided. 

They shall exclude from their stand during the running of 
a race all persons except the Clerk of the Course. 

The Judges shall have control of horses in purse races from 
the time of declaration at 12 o'clock (noon), the day of the 
race, and in stakes when declarations to start are made, forty- 
five minutes previous to the race. 

The Judges in their discretion, where fraud is suspected, 
shall have the right to put upon a horse a rider selected by 
them, and shall have a right to place the horse in charge of 
a trainer they may select. Any owner or trainer who re- 
fuses to permit a rider or trainer to be changed as herein 
provided, and any trainer or rider who refuses to take 
charge of, or ride a horse on the order of the Judges, shall 
be ruled off. 

114 — Patrol Judges. 

The Judges or officers may appoint patrol Judges, whose 
duty it shall be to observe the race from points designated 
to them, and if any foul riding or other irregularity come 
under their observation, to report to the Judges immediately 
after the heat or race. 

115 — Distance Judges. 

When running the best of heats, the Distance Judge and 

his assistant shall occupy a stand at the proper distance, and 

at the termination of each heat, report to the Judges the 

horse or horses that have been distanced. 

1 16 — Timers. 

There shall be one or more timers, not to exceed three, 
who shall occupy the timers' stand, and declare the official 
time of the race, and no one else shall be allowed in the 
timers' stand during the race. 

1 17 — Assistant Starter. 
With the sanction of the Officers of the Association, the 
starter may appoint his assistant. 



40 RULES OF RACING. 

i*& — Secretar)' or his Deputy. 

The Secretary or his deputy shall attend the Judges during 
each race; he shall discharge all the duties, whether ex- 
pressed or implied, required by the racing rules, and report 
to the Officers or the Judges, as the case may demand, all 
violations of those rules, or of the regulations of the course, 
coming under his notice ; he shall keep a complete record 
of all races, and at the close of each meeting, make a report 
of the races to the Officers; he shall receive all stakes, for- 
feits, entrance moneys, and fines, and pay over all moneys so 
collected by him to such Officers as the club may select. 

1 19 — Superintendent. 

It shall be the duty of the Superintendent to assign to 
applicants such stables as he may think proper, to be occu- 
pied only by horses in preparation for racing He shall see 
that the course is kept in order, at all proper times for train- 
ing and racing, and exercise such general control over it as 
may be necessary to protect its condition and the rights of 
all parties using it. He shall have the general authority to 
preserve order and prevent improper conduct upon the 
course and grounds connected therewith, and shall decide 
all conflicting claims of privileges between parties occupying 
them for any purpose. 

I :o — Betting Groiuids. 
Jockeys, grooms, and stable boys are positively forbidden 
the betting grounds. The parties so offending may be sus- 
pended or ruled off. 

121 — Limitation and 7 ' ransfer of Badges. 

Free Badges shall not be issued by any association except 
in the following cases : 

Not exceeding two badges to any one newspaper. 

Not exceeding one owner's badge to each stable on the 
grounds. 

Not exceeding one attache's badge for each horse in a 
stable and on the grounds 

Purchasers of privileges shall not have the right of Free 
Entrance by reason of their purchases. 



RULES OF RACING. 41 

The transfer or giving of complimentary, press, or any 
other kind of badges, presented by the Association to any 
other party, shall exclude both the party giving or receiving 
said badges from the grounds of the Association. 

122 — Craps and Other Species of Games. 

Craps, and all other species of gambling games, by train- 
ers, jockeys, attendants or any other parties, are positively 
forbidden about the stables and grounds of the various 
associations governed by these rules. The parties so offend- 
ing may be suspended or ruled off. 

HURDLE RULES. 

123. 

The rules of flat and steeplechase races, as far a> applicable 
shall apply to hurdle races. 

124 — Winning Horse. 

The term ''winning horse," with reference to those liable 
to carry extra weight, or to be excluded from any race, 
shall apply only to winners of hurdle races, value $100 and 
upward, not including the winner's own stake. 

125 — Distance of Hurdle Races. 
No hurdle race shall be of less than one mile (if a dash 
race), or less than four-flights of hurdles, and in all longer 
races there shall be an additional flight of hurdles in each 
quarter of a mile or part of one. 

126— STEEPLECHASE RULES. 

When steeplechases are advertised to be run under the 
American Racing Rules, these rules shall be applicable, 
with the following addition-, : 

127 — Distance. 
No steeplechase shall be of less distance than one mile. 



42 STEEPLECHASE RULES. 

128— Scale of Weight. 

No horse shall carry less than 120 pounds in any steeple- 
chase. 

1 29 — Foul Riding. 

The Judges shall have power to disqualify any horse 
from being declared the winner of a steeplechase, although 
he should come in first, if it can be clearly proved to their 
satisfaction that the jockey, by any deliberate foul riding, 
intended to knock down any horse, or in any determined 
way jeopardize his chance of success in the race. Any 
jockey who shall be found guilty of foul riding, and sen- 
tenced to either fine, suspension, or expulsion from riding, 
will not be allowed to ride at any meeting over any course 
running under these rules until the Officers who have passed 
the sentence shall give him a certificate either to say that 
the fine is paid or that they consider the suspension of suf- 
ficient duration. In no case shall the fine exceed the sum 
of $100, and expulsion from riding for life shall always be 
the punishment for preventing a horse from winning or in a 
clear case of fraud. 

130 — Post and Flags. 

Horses running on the wrong side of a post or flag, and 
not turning back, are disqualified. 

131 — Winners and Walk- Overs. 

Winners of flat or hurdle races are not considered winners 
in steeplechasing. 

A horse walking over or receiving forfeit, except for a 
match, is deemed a winner. 



132. 

Any rider in a steeplechase, where the ground is not 
flagged out, going upward of one hundred yards on any 
high road, lane, or public thoroughfare, will disqualify his 
horse from winning, although he should come in first. 



STEEPLECHASE RULES. 43 

133- 

Any rider in a steeplechase, where the ground is not 
flagged out, opening any gate or wicket, or passing through 
any gateway or common passage from one enclosure to 
another, will disqualify his horse from winning, although he 
should come in first. 

1 34 — Remounting. 

Any horse getting away from his rider may be remounted 
in any part of the same field or enclosure in which the 
occurrence took place ; but should such a horse not be 
caught until he shall have entered another field, then he 
shall be ridden or brought back to the one in which he 
parted from his rider. Any jockey so losing his horse may 
be assisted in catching and remounting him without risk of 
disqualification ; and in the event of a rider being disabled, 
his horse may be ridden home by any person of sufficient 
weight, provided he be qualified according to the conditions 
of the race. No penalty shall be exacted for carrying over- 
weight in this instance. 

135 — Flag Marks. 

If any flag, post, or boundary mark be placed in the 
course — no matter by whose order — after the riders have 
been shown over the grounds, or had the line of country 
pointed out or explained to them, it shall not be considered 
binding or of any effect, unless such alteration or addition 
shall have been particularly named, previous to starting, to 
all the jockeys about to ride in the race, by one of the 
Officers, Secretary, Starter, or by their representative. 

136 — Refusing Jumps. 

If a horse refuse any fence or jump in a steeplechase, and 
it can be proved to the satisfaction of the Judges that he 
has been led over a fence by any of the bystanders, or has 
been given a lead over one by any horseman not in the 
race, the horse shall be disqualified for winning, although he 
should come in first. 



44 BETTING RULES. 

137. 

BETTING RULES. 

In all bets there must be a possibility to win when the bet 
is made. " You can not win where you can not lose." 

138. 
If a horse entered by an incorrect or insufficient descrip- 
tion is for that reason disqualified before the race and pre- 
vented from running, bets on that horse are void. 

139- 

All pools and bets must follow the main stakes, purse, or 
prize, as awarded by the decision of the Judges, except 
when in cases of fraud, the bets are declared off by the 
Judges. 

140. 

If a horse is illegally entered for the purpose of betting 
against him, and if he comes in first, of having him disqual- 
ified by means of an objection made after the race, such bets 
are fraudulent and void. 

141. 

All bets are play or pay, unless otherwise stipulated. 

142. 

All double bets must be considered play or pay. 

H3. 

Confirmed bets can not be off, except by mutual consent 
or by failure to make stakes at the time and place which may 
have been agreed upon, in which case it is optional with a 
better not in default to declare then and there that the bet 
stands. If at the time specified for making stakes, the horse 
or horses backed are dead or struck out of the engagement, 
and a start has not been stipulated, the better against them 
need not, while the backer must deposit his stake. If there 
is no stipulation when the bet is made for the deposit of 
stakes, they can not be demanded afterwards. 



BETTING RULES. 45 

H4. 
All bets on matches and private sweepstakes depending 
between any two horses, are void if those horses become the 
property of the same person or his confederate, subsequently 
to the bets being made. 

i45- 
Unless aereed by parties to the contrary, all bets between 
paniuar loses "ar" void jf neither of them is placed in 
fw race except bets between particular horses started for 
, race of hea s'but not starting for a third heat, whic . sha 
L r XeUd'by their^laces in <*^&?&£l% 

afterwards. 

146. 

If anv bet shall be made by signal or indication after the 
race hi been determined, such bets shall be considered 
fraudulent and void. 

The person who lays the odds has a right to choose a horse 
or the field; when a person has chosen a horse the held is 
what starts against him. 

148. 
When a certain number of horses are taken against the 
fieM and among them are horses struck out of the : engage- 
ment or disqualified, or even never engaged the bet never 
Sss standi so long as there remains one horse which is 
qualified to start at the time the bet is made. 

H9- 
If odds are laid without mentioning the horse before the 
race is over, the bet must be determined by the state 
odds at the time of making it. 

150. 
When a race is postponed, all bets must stand; but if the 
sliest d tf erenc? in the terms of the engagement is made, 
all bets before the alteration are void. 



46 BETTING RULES. 

151. 

Bets made on horses winning any number of races within 
the year shall be understood as meaning between the 1st of 
January and the 31st of December, both inclusive. 

152- 

If a bet be made between two horses, with a forfeit affixed 
— say $100 half forfeit — and both horses start, either party 
may declare forfeit ; and the person making such a declara- 
tion would pay $50 if the other horse was placed in the race, 
but would receive nothing in the event of his horse being 
placed. 

153. 
Money given to have a bet laid shall not be returned, 
though the race be not run. 

154. 

Matches and bets are void on the decease of either party 
before the match or bet is determined. 

155- 

Bets on a match for which a dead heat is run are void ; 
and if the match is run over again instanter, it is considered 
a fresh engagement. 

156. 

"When the rider of any horse has weighed out, and the 
horse's number has been put up, all bets respecting such 
horse shall be play or pay, except when the horse is ex- 
cused, or in case of fraud. 

157. 

When a horse runs a dead heat for a purse or sweepstakes, 
and the owners agree to, or by the rules of racing, divide, 
all bets between such horses, or between either of them and 
the field, must be settled by the money betted being put to- 
gether and divided between the parties in the same propor- 
tion as the prize or stakes. 

If the dead heat be the first event of a double bet between 






PETTING RULES. 47 

either of the horses making it and the field, the bet is void, 
unless one horse received above moiety, which would con- 
stitute him a winner in a double event. 

If the dead heat be the first event of a double bet 
between the horses making it, the bet is void, unless the 
division was unequal, in which case a horse receiving a larger 
proportion would, in a double event, be considered as better 
placed in a race than one receiving a smaller sum. 

If a bet is made on one of the horses that ran the dead 
heat against a beaten horse, he who backed the horse that 
ran the dead heat wins the bet. 

158. 

If a match be run by mistake after the principals have 
compromised, it does not affect the betting or the result. 

159. 
Pools shall not be play or pay. 

160. 

In no case shall one horse be sold in the auction pools, 
Paris mutuals, or book-making as favorite against the field 
when there are four or more horses to start. In case one 
horse is such a favorite that his opponent will not sell, the 
favorite may be left out, and the same rule shall apply to the 
others in the race. 

Where two or more horses start in a race in the same 
interest they shall be coupled and sold as one horse in all 
pools, Paris mutuals, and book-betting. 

161. 
In place betting, the money shall be awarded as the horses 
are placed by the Judges. 



At the Annual Meeting of the American Turf Con- 
gress, held at Lexington, Ky., November 9, 1887, the 
following officers were elected : 

CHARLES GREEN, President, 

Address, St. Louis, Mo. 

O. L. BRADLEY, Treasurer, 

Address, Lexington, Ky. 

B. G. BRUCE, Secretary, 

Address, Lexington, Ky. 



At a special meeting of the American Turf Congress, 
held at Cincinnati, O., December 14, 1887, the Twin 
City Jockey Club of St. Paul, Minn., was elected a mem- 
ber of thi Congress 



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